In this source, being is the aspect of stability in the understanding of existence; that is, a thing as it is in its material locus. Muhammad Shahrur makes it a methodological principle for understanding religion and legislation, as the counterpart that cannot be understood apart from becoming and transformation.
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- The new principles of jurisprudence rest on distinguishing between the fixity of the text and the historicity of understanding
- Historical Islam is a conditioned historical understanding
- Transformation is the final end
- The world needs transformation
- Being is the standing existence
- Existence cannot be understood except through the interdependence of being, becoming, and transformation
- The triad of being, becoming, and transformation
- Understanding religion and legislation rests on the triad of being, becoming, and transformation